Posted on 05/12/2016 11:20:22 AM PDT by Fhios
But the documents show that the company relies heavily on the intervention of a small editorial team to determine what makes its "trending module" headlines -- the list of news topics that shows up on the side of the browser window on Facebook's desktop version. The company backed away from a pure-algorithm approach in 2014 after criticism that it had not included enough coverage of unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, in users' feeds. The guidelines show human intervention -- and therefore editorial decisions -- at almost every stage of Facebook's trending news operation, a team that at one time was as few as 12 people.
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Propaganda has it's own "That Was Easy" button from the internet and corporate controlled social media like Facebook, Twitter. Google deserves it's own story.
I think social media should be protected under the right to assemble and therefor all intellectual property owned by social media companies should be revoked.
Not because they're bad (they are) but because opinion should be open source and not restricted by intellectual property rights of Corporations.
I have withdrawn from ever doing face book again.
Well the bottom line is that Facebook pushes liberal interpretations of the news. Anyone surprised by this???
I thank God the real-name mass social media craze passed me by. Apart from any thought manipulation, it has just really messed a lot of folks up.
Freegards
“I have withdrawn from ever doing facebook again”
Never had an account and I imagine I never will, or twitter or any other social media for that matter(does FR count?) and yet my life goes on just fine.
Of course.
The Z-man is not bright. To quote Dirkbama the Muslim Dick, he was lucky.
To have the collection O-clowns that is Facebook is not to have an enviable legacy.
And indeed, for once, the Muslim Dick was correct.
It’s really bad because the vast majority of Millenials appear to get their news from social media newsfeeds, and nowhere else.
My own daughter had no idea that the Planned Parenthood Videos and Hillary’s email server WERE EVEN NEWS until I told her about them.
>>> The Z-man is not bright. To quote Dirkbama the Muslim Dick, he was lucky.
[Still laughing......] FReepers are the best!
It seems like every week I read a story about some nitwit who messed up his life by posting something to the world, in a time where saying something that some Social Justice Warrior takes offense with can get screaming hordes descending on your place of employment.
Schmuckerberg was getting his marching orders from 0bola or his minions..
And we surprised just why?
If Facebook is intervening in news does this include STOCK MANIPULATION?
There is a word for news filtered through an agenda, it’s called propaganda.
Facebook and Twitter were invented by Liberals in order to effectively herd the sheep into conformist progressive groupthink.
Consider how quickly we’ve been losing ground in the Culture Wars since Facebook became a thing.
Exactly and sometimes they get estranged from actual friends, family and acquaintances. All it does is let everyone know how stupid we are, and how mean and petty folks can be when they aren’t face to face. I’m thinking maybe humans weren’t meant to know what some cat in China thinks about stuff instantly and in a tiny word blurb, much less neighbors.
Freegards
I would far rather human beings with a political bias were picking the stories than some computer algorithm.
Be open! Discuss the bias! If you use FB at all, counter the bias with the stories you talk about.
Can’t Facebook be sued as a “utility” — something so ubiquitous and critical to new distribution, as to be a 1st Amendment violation? One analogy would be a paper company in 1920 denying paper to newspapers with a particular political position. That would have been crushed by any court. I bet more than 50% of traffic for news articles come from Facebook. It’s a utility. God, I wish I were a lawyer.
It's darker and more sinister than just that. Think of Government + social media + corporations + political groups and activists. The government privately leans on corporations either through the IRS or DOJ, or EPA or similar threats. CEO's are not invulnerable to attacks and removals for refusing to play along. Government leans on social media to control the narrative and direct activists to the scripted campaign to crush opposition on almost anything.
If you use FB at all, counter the bias with the stories you talk about.
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If it is overtly conservative it will be labeled as “hate” and you will be dealt with.
I have a FB account and it contains absolutely nothing , just bogus personal data and no postings , I use it just to check up on other peoples FB posts.
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